Jalapeno Cheese Squares

May 7, 2012 @ 10:12 pm by
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I made these for the first time this weekend and they are so good! SO GOOD! These are also very easy to make. VERY EASY! I’m going to make some more tomorrow so I will get a good picture then. They are kind of like a crustless quiche.

One of our Saturday evening guests said she uses Pepper Jack cheese instead of mozzarella cheese. If you do this you could eliminate handling and chopping the jalapeños. By the way, I used two large red jalapeño peppers to keep it a bit milder for the not-so-spicy-eaters in my house. I will probably make the next batch with the Pepper Jack cheese and skip the jalapeño for comparison. I will report back with the results.

Jalapeno Cheese Squares
Recipe Type: Appetizer
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 70
Ingredients
  • 3 sticks butter, melted
  • 2 cup flour, sifted
  • 2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 8 eggs, beaten
  • 2 cup cottage cheese
  • 16 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup jalapeño peppers, finely chopped
  • cooking spray
Instructions
  1. preheat oven to 325*
  2. In a large bowl mix: butter, flour, baking soda, eggs, cottage cheese, mozzerella cheese, salt together
  3. Stir in peppers
  4. grease 10″ x 15″ baking dish with cooking spray
  5. spread mixture in baking dish
  6. bake for 30 minutes until golden brown and let cool
  7. cut into squares and serve
Notes

This recipe fills a large baking dish. If you cut this recipe in half it fits easily in a 9 x 13 baking dish.

 

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Boo (the Little Brown Bat)

April 21, 2012 @ 12:43 pm by
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We had some excitement this morning. I went out to the porch to feed the dogs this morning and saw a small dead animal a few feet from the door. Without my glasses and no coffee in my blood stream yet I thought it was a mole or a little mouse the cat brought to us.

I had heard a small ruckus on the back porch about midnight and at first thought one of the dogs (who had misbehaved) had been banished to sleep outside on the porch instead of in the game room. The I heard her bark at the noise, realized she was inside and assumed the cat (who refused to come inside last night) was chasing something; I rolled over and went to sleep.

This morning I put two and two together and came up with the ruckus and the cat being out meant a for sure present from his new domain. I went out to double check what the present was before I disposed of it in a plastic bag and low and behold it was bat! I got a bit excited for many reasons: in the “fight” did it bite the cat? Did it bite the dog who had been banished (but was reluctantly let in late) to the porch earlier in the evening? And a host of other things running through my head.
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Sewing Room: Quilt Design Wall

April 16, 2012 @ 4:28 pm by
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Well, this great house has blessed me with an incredible sewing space. A space I never believed I would have. I still have a great deal to think about for this space. This room needs change, but it will be slow going and going as I can. I didn’t get to rip out the carpet and get new flooring in before we moved in, time did not allow. After a day or two of walking around the house and being in the house we decided to shift the priority list around anyway.

My first order of business after unpacking the boxes was creating a quilt design wall. The original plan was to use foam insulation board, cover it, and hang it. Then I decided on a “home made” method I saw on a quilt blog (can’t find the link now) that rolled up the flannel and tied it off with ribbon to keep it out of the way when not in use. After being here I really couldn’t decide. I tend to be a multi-project-at-once seamstress so I wanted a solution that would allow me to design in the multiple as well.

My best brainstorm thoughts:
multi-project -> therefore, layered -> not stiff covered foam board, but flexible fabric for rolling up

I like the idea and basic look/use of the Vanishing Design Wall but it was more limiting than I wanted. It was not as wide as I wanted and really doesn’t allow for multiple layers.
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Still here

April 16, 2012 @ 7:37 am by
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So we’ve been busy around here. Moving is hard work. Moving is exhausting. Moving the week before Palm Sunday for a pastor’s family is even more exhausting. We barely got the truck unpacked and the first Sunday here we slept in. The next Sunday was his Installation Service, then Palm Sunday, of course followed by Easter Sunday. This past weekend was our first to slow down just a bit and breathe. I still have a lot, about 20, boxes to unpack, but we are getting there.

We have been so blessed. We arrived at this house with the trucks after 11pm on Saturday, March 17th (2012). We parked the trucks and got the cars unloaded. I ran to Walmart (yes, really. I KNOW! and don’t judge me it’s the only thing open that late) to grab two large dog crates. We had two, but we needed two more. See, the dogs got put on the porch with the doggie door to the back yard and the cats needed to be contained some way so they wouldn’t run away and needed more space than the small cat carriers. They were going to have to stay in them until the trucks were unpacked the next afternoon. Yes, they were angry, but they were so happy not to be in a car anymore or in the little cat carriers.
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Sounds

March 30, 2012 @ 9:46 am by
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Oh so much to write about. In the meantime, here is a sampling of what it sounds like at almost any given moment outside my home. I have not yet been able to identify that one loud bird yet, but he sings all day long. If you listen closely you can hear the bullfrog that lives in the goldfish pond (which needs some serious cleaning out and a bit of fresh landscaping).
Outside My Home

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Day of Destruction

February 25, 2012 @ 9:00 pm by
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Today we were destructive in almost everything we did. This morning I decided to tackle the relics I have ignored long enough. I have begun this numerous times, but simply couldn’t bring myself to do it because of why I needed to do it. It’s a legal thang. I had three old computers that have/had some files on them that I need. I refused to take the compies with us so I decided to take the hard drives. I took them out and destroyed the rest. HA! Ancient, I tell you. Relics.I’ve hooked up each computer to move, merge, and archive the files we need many times. It will take quite some time and it always makes me sad so I hem and haw and stop. I have put it off. Unfortunately I do not have time to do it right now either. But what I do have now are somehard drive USB enclosures (not the exact model, but a link for the curious).
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Nostalgia

February 24, 2012 @ 7:28 pm by
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So today was long.

And hard.

But good.

Everything aches; I mean everything. My hair hurts. The tips of my toes are numb. Everything in between is ready to go to bed for three days, at least. Alas, not gonna happen.

Today we cleaned out our little rental unit that we got shortly after we moved here (seven years ago) because we do not have an attic. We frequent it about once every two months to swap out some seasonal items. I have also been storing a few boxes of items I knew were out there that I have never been able to use here in this house. (Not writing about that today.) It was situational, but they were things I had hoped we could use again some day. Right before Thanksgiving I told RevMrKnowTea that if the new job did not work out and we stayed here then I was ready to let go of those things and I wanted the rental unit cleaned out by Spring Break.

The new job did work out and we needed to clean it out anyway, but for different reasons. Today was the day. Yesterday we cleaned out the carport, let go of some things, and hauled off items that did not need to make the move. All in preparation for bringing the rental unit cargo to the carport for loading on the moving truck.
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No Garage Sale

February 23, 2012 @ 8:24 pm by
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Wow, two posts in one day. I think we have officially decided NOT to do a garage sale. I know, I know! I am simultaneously thrilled to simply get it out of here and saddened that I could make at least $40 bucks to buy a take out dinner one night. HA!

Well, there is so much to do and I can not find time on the calendar to do it. We war brutal to ourselves today. We spent nine (yes, 9!) hours in the carport cleaning, sorting, packing, hauling, organizing today. We also cleaned out the garden. WAH! We borrowed a friend’s truck and hauled off three truck loads of stuff. Some of that went to the dump and some of that went to the thrift store. It was sad getting rid of some of it. Bikes and lawn equipment that needed repairing we decided to go ahead and get rid of them. It was a mix of outgrown bikes, 2 needed small repairs, a weed eater that always put me on the edge of thrown a few choice words around. These things would have remained if we were not moving; we would do the necessary repairs. The thought of repairing them now made me stressed with time. The thought of taking them to repair them on the other end of the move made me ill to think about paying for the weight and space to move them. So bye-bye.
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The Kitchen and Dining Room

February 23, 2012 @ 6:01 pm by
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In my last post I talked about what I really wish I could do – just toss it all, well, most of it. So begins the series of what we want to do when we move. It has been so long since we owned a house and living in this rental with flat white walls and black mold and other issues I had practically given up on ever being a homeowner again. Which translates into no longer dreaming of making a home mine again. I quit thinking of color and style and anything nice. Those dreams have been stirred and while they may be BIG dreams and maybe even too big. I will not quit dreaming again. The dreams are ever changing, evolving as life does and as new info comes to light. It is a new stage of life I am ready to face head on. Join me? ALLONS-Y!

I will start with the kitchen and dining rooms. In the layout of the new house they may not be connected but they do relate to each other, n’est-ce pas?

Disclaimer: We know full well what we want to do may not happen right away or even at all. It is simply part of the dream we will work toward achieving.
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Starting over

February 22, 2012 @ 5:41 pm by
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I am so tried of looking at boxes, boxes, and more boxes! I have hit a point where I do not care if we need it/want it or not. Can I just pitch it all and start over? Last night I actually dreamed about pitching most of what we have and simply starting over. IN some ways that is what we are doing in way, even if it is metaphorical. The dream lead my thoughts down the path of the “what ifs”. What if I really did get rid of most of our stuff and make a plan to start over. Almost everything we have is either particle board and falling apart or is a hand-me-down. Now do not twist my words or misinterpret them. I do not mind second hand, but I really would like to choose. If I can not have exactly what I would want in my home then I would love to be able to choose at least the style or the color or some aspect of what we bring into our home. Very little in my home speaks to anything about me or us as a family.

The problem with starting over is the money to start over, especially enough to supply a family of eight. Simply because my mind is wrapped up in it right now and I can not seem to chase it away I am going to dream a bit right now. Indulge me. Maybe when I go to the thrift store this weekend I will buy a pair of pants that has a winning lottery ticket in it. I still live in Louisiana after all. HA!
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